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Article2d materials2017

Confinement effects on lyotropic nematic liquid crystal phases of graphene oxide dispersions.

Shakhawan Al-Zangana, Maria Iliut, Michael Turner, Aravind Vijayaraghavan, Ingo Dierking

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Article in 2d materials, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Nanomaterials in Liquid Crystals.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
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  5. Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases from Anisotropic Nanomaterials.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shakhawan Al-ZanganaSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1851-5574
Maria IliutSchool of Materials and National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Michael TurnerSchool of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Aravind VijayaraghavanSchool of Materials and National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Ingo DierkingSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
University of Manchester · GBKurdistan Regional Government · IQ

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graphene oxide (GO) forms well ordered liquid crystal (LC) phases in polar solvents. Here, we map the lyotropic phase diagram of GO as a function of the lateral dimensions of the GO flakes, their concentration, geometrical confinement configuration and solvent polarity. GO flakes were prepared in water and transferred into other polar solvents. Polarising optical microscopy (POM) was used to determine the phase evolution through the isotropic-biphasic-nematic transitions of the GO LC. We report that the confinement volume and geometry relative to the particle size is critical for the observation of the lyotropic phase, specifically, this determines the low-end concentration limit for the detection of the GO LC. Additionally, a solvent with higher polarisability stabilises the LC phases at lower concentrations and smaller flake sizes. GO LCs have been proposed for a range of applications from display technologies to conductive fibres, and the behaviour of LC phase formation under confinement imposes a limit on miniaturisation of the dimensions of such GO LC systems which could significantly impact on their potential applications.

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confinementgraphene oxideliquid crystal

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PMID33282320
PMCPMC7672374
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